Seguin is progressing just fine, and at this point I think he's a step ahead of Hall for now.

Hamilton as previously mentioned is needed to be Bostons future stud anchor on D. While Yakupov would be exciting, Boston has a good stable of scoring wingers as of now (Marchand Lucic Horton). Bostons need is on defense.

*If Seguin proves he can take over #1 center duties this season, I'd be curious to look into this deal below:

To EDM:
Malcom Subban
David Krejci

To BOS:
Nail Yakupov
MPS

Other way around Hall is a step ahead of Seguin as Tyler has 89 points in 155 games on a far better Bruins team which has been one of the best teams in the league the past couple years and Taylor Hall playing on the worst team in the league the last couple years has put up 95 points in 126 games, but that is beside the point that Bruins Brass and fans want Dougie and Tyler and Oil fans Want to keep Hallsy and Nail.... Proposals like these are pointless in my opinion because these Trades will never happen way to much at stake there young and they all have long and great careers ahead.

Other way around Hall is a step ahead of Seguin as Tyler has 89 points in 155 games on a far better Bruins team which has been one of the best teams in the league the past couple years and Taylor Hall playing on the worst team in the league the last couple years has put up 95 points in 126 games, but that is beside the point that Bruins Brass and fans want Dougie and Tyler and Oil fans Want to keep Hallsy and Nail.... Proposals like these are pointless in my opinion because these Trades will never happen way to much at stake there young and they all have long and great careers ahead.

Ok splitting hairs here.

One could argue that being a top line forward on a last place team would benefit one stat-wise as he is given tons of un-earned ice time & PP time,, whereas a young player on a top team would have to earn his ice time, play on a 3rd line, & get lil PP time eventually making it onto the 2nd unit.

I did not speak poorly of Hall, I just think Seguin is a bit more polished at this point in their careers.

Other way around Hall is a step ahead of Seguin as Tyler has 89 points in 155 games on a far better Bruins team which has been one of the best teams in the league the past couple years and Taylor Hall playing on the worst team in the league the last couple years has put up 95 points in 126 games, but that is beside the point that Bruins Brass and fans want Dougie and Tyler and Oil fans Want to keep Hallsy and Nail.... Proposals like these are pointless in my opinion because these Trades will never happen way to much at stake there young and they all have long and great careers ahead.

Meanwhile Hall was spoon-fed ice and PP time while Seguin got very little of the former and none of the latter. Seguin is also more developed defensively, and I'm not sure why all of you say that playing less games is an advantage, I wasn't aware that being injury prone was a good thing.

Not trying to say he's better, I say they're neck and neck, but that "best/worst team in the league" thing is getting old. Hall would have gotten just as many points and as much ice time, if not less, as Seguin if he was drafted by us.

Boston is a team that has been managed very well of late. I highly doubt they would have passed up on the unanimous BPA to fill a need. That's what terribly run franchises do.

Who knows if it would have been unaimous if Hamilton was eligible after the year he had??... it's all hypotheticals, impossible to tell. You're just assuming Yakupov would be unanimous... but fact is no defenseman in that draft had a year even close to the year Hamilton had.

Also if you're going by Boston's brain trust, they don't draft Russians. Since Chia has taken over I think they have only drafted 2 to date.

Bottom line... if Edmonton offered Yak for Hamilton right now... Boston politely declines and that's all that matters here... rest is splitting hairs.

That doesn't mean Dougie will be better than Yakupov or holds more value... just that Dougie is more important to Boston than Yakupov could be.

Who knows if it would have been unaimous if Hamilton was eligible after the year he had??... it's all hypotheticals, impossible to tell. You're just assuming Yakupov would be unanimous... but fact is no defenseman in that draft had a year even close to the year Hamilton had.

Also if you're going by Boston's brain trust, they don't draft Russians. Since Chia has taken over I think they have only drafted 2 to date.

Bottom line... if Edmonton offered Yak for Hamilton right now... Boston politely declines and that's all that matters here... rest is splitting hairs.

That doesn't mean Dougie will be better than Yakupov or holds more value... just that Dougie is more important to Boston than Yakupov could be.

Let's just move on.

Yea, I personally think Hamilton could have contended for #2 with Murray.

As for not drafting Russians, there aren't that many Russians in the league anyways. The Oilers hadn't drafted Russians either but they had to with Nail as the BPA.

Well we can agree that both teams say no. Boston because of positional needs and Edmonton because of value.

I think Hamilton (like Seguin) will benefit from being drafted by Boston, as Seguin has been mentored by Bergeron (whom has tremendous work ethic), Hamilton will surely be watching Chara closely, and that will only make him a better player.

Meanwhile Hall was spoon-fed ice and PP time while Seguin got very little of the former and none of the latter. Seguin is also more developed defensively, and I'm not sure why all of you say that playing less games is an advantage, I wasn't aware that being injury prone was a good thing.

Not trying to say he's better, I say they're neck and neck, but that "best/worst team in the league" thing is getting old. Hall would have gotten just as many points and as much ice time, if not less, as Seguin if he was drafted by us.

Hall was never spoon feed, he earn his ice time. As for Seguin he was a healthy scratch a number of times his rookie year and a lot of it had to do with his maturity.

Hall was never spoon feed, he earn his ice time. As for Seguin he was a healthy scratch a number of times his rookie year and a lot of it had to do with his maturity.

Seguin was a healthy scratch for his maturity one time when he was late to a team meeting and he never did it again. ONE TIME, that is all.

Hall didn't have to play defensively responsible or play on the 4th line or not at all. Hall earned his ice time because he was on the worst team in the entire league. If Seguin was in that situation don't you think he would have had gotten more ice time?

That has nothing to do with anything other than the situation their teams were in, both are fine players and both teams are happy to have them.

I don't know why people have to try to belittle one of these players when they like the other one, they are both great players.

Shame on anyone who tries to cut down Hall or Seguin to raise up the other one.

Other way around Hall is a step ahead of Seguin as Tyler has 89 points in 155 games on a far better Bruins team which has been one of the best teams in the league the past couple years and Taylor Hall playing on the worst team in the league the last couple years has put up 95 points in 126 games

Points per game at this stage is irrelevant because one sees more ice time than the other.

Last year Seguin had one point per 20:28 minutes spent on the ice. Hall had one point per 20:58. In other words, Seguin was scoring at a higher rate.

Nothing to do with the two of them Edmonton does not have an Elite second line and good third line, and Boston had a lot of injuries last year so were not even as deep as they should have been.

Because Boston is a deep team it is a knock on Seguin, they both draw the other teams top pairings when there on the ice.

Boston scored A LOT more goals whether Seguin was on or off the ice than Edmonton, due in large part to your defensemen being an asset rather than a liability. Provides a lot more opportunity to get points, . Also makes it difficult and a bit unfair to compare certain stats across teams, for instance the stats you listed.

Hall was in on a higher percentage of his teams offense than Seguin was. Which is as meaningless without the proper context as points per minute.

One could argue that being a top line forward on a last place team would benefit one stat-wise as he is given tons of un-earned ice time & PP time,, whereas a young player on a top team would have to earn his ice time, play on a 3rd line, & get lil PP time eventually making it onto the 2nd unit.

I did not speak poorly of Hall, I just think Seguin is a bit more polished at this point in their careers.

He was planted into the top-6 from day one. Dont give us the bs "he earned it" line, Hall is a great player, but he absoultely benefited (stats wise) by playing on a weak team. This cant be debated, Seguin wouldve played top- immediately also if the Oilers had drafted him, & ofcourse Hall (like Seguin) wouldve had to earned his in Boston.